With all the talk about extending the Wiki-syntax, I'd like to post this extension I proposed earlier on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=586885&grou...) :
"To avoid piping, maybe we could use some features like the [[plural]]s thing, which is rendered as [[plural|plurals]].
I propose:
* [[English] language]] --> [[English language|English]] * [[George W. [Bush]] --> [[George W. Bush|Bush]]
the [ and ] are just an idea, I don't really care if another character would be used."
I got positive reactions from Brion Vibber and Toby Bartels, who proposed the additional extension of [[George ]W. [Bush]] --> [[George Bush]].
Jeroen Heijmans
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Jeroen Heijmans wrote:
I propose:
- [[English] language]] --> [[English language|English]]
- [[George W. [Bush]] --> [[George W. Bush|Bush]]
the [ and ] are just an idea, I don't really care if another character would be used."
If this feature is wanted, I think another character would be good. As it is, it would make the bracket-matching facilities present in most decent text editors less useful.
-M-
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:09:26PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Jeroen Heijmans wrote:
I propose:
- [[English] language]] --> [[English language|English]]
- [[George W. [Bush]] --> [[George W. Bush|Bush]]
the [ and ] are just an idea, I don't really care if another character would be used."
If this feature is wanted, I think another character would be good. As it is, it would make the bracket-matching facilities present in most decent text editors less useful.
Perhaps curly braces arount the parts you don't want in the link name?:
* [[English {language}]] --> [[English language|English]] * [[{George W.} Bush]] --> [[George W. Bush|Bush]]
You could then even exclude multiple parts from the link name.
-- Jan Hidders
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